Unseen wires by who? The pilot must not have known about them and certainly didn't see them. That's pilot error. When you are pilot in command, you are 100% responsible for every outcome, period.Can't be pilot error, didn't Cujet say "unseen wires".
The last thousand pilots who landed at that field over those wires, saw them and didn't make the error of hitting them. Hitting the wires is a piloting error and the only one who could have committed the error is the pilot.
Said yet another way, the pilot made a mistake by hitting the wires. The FAA calls mistakes, errors.
The FAR (Federal Air Regulation) the governs pilot responsibility is about as simple as it gets:
§ 91.3 Responsibility and authority of the pilot in command.
(a) The pilot in command of an aircraft is directly responsible for, and is the final authority as to, the operation of that aircraft.
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